Mendeley seabird groups

[Sjúrður Hammer]

I would like to let you all know that there are a few seabird related
groups on Mendeley, if you care to join the growing free service.
Besides being a reference management tool like Endnote and other, it's
got at social component which makes it really easy to communicate,
collaborate and share reading lists and full pdf articles within the
system. It's quickly becoming a "facebook" for academics. I'm not at
all suggesting that seabirds.net should leave google groups, but just
wanted to let you know of this service, and hope to see a couple of
you joining the seabird groups.

Here are a few examples:

http://www.mendeley.com/groups/531201/seabirds-migration-and-climate-change/

http://www.mendeley.com/groups/506991/seabirds/

And this is my personal profile:

http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/sjurur-hammer/

cheers

Sjurdur

[Grant Humphries]

Hey Sjurdur,

I only recently got Mendeley myself, and I think it's pretty great
tool for sharing references, etc... Maybe one day we'll be able to
model the forum section of seabirds.net after it.

We're going to be migrating out of google groups once we can get
seabirds.net's discussion forum up and running. Mendeley is great,
but I think we're more likely to attract seabird people to
"seabirds.net" over "Mendeley.com". What I mean to say is that I
personally think that seabird professionals are more likely to use
seabirds.net. Of course, I've been wrong before.

Cheers
Grant

On Mar 9, 8:58 am, Sjúrður Hammer <sjur...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to let you all know that there are a few seabird related
> groups on Mendeley, if you care to join the growing free service.
> Besides being a reference management tool like Endnote and other, it's
> got at social component which makes it really easy to communicate,
> collaborate and share reading lists and full pdf articles within the
> system. It's quickly becoming a "facebook" for academics. I'm not at
> all suggesting that seabirds.net should leave google groups, but just
> wanted to let you know of this service, and hope to see a couple of
> you joining the seabird groups.
>
> Here are a few examples:
>

> http://www.mendeley.com/groups/531201/seabirds-migration-and-climate-...

[Sjúrður Hammer]

I completely agree that seabirds.net shall be the primary source of
reference for seabird researchers, also for its forums, but If there
ever were to be for example topic specific literature lists, or
member's favorite publications, Mendeley could potentially be an
appropriate compatibility partner. I wouldn't expect seabirds.net to
have the "social network" feeling that Mendeley and Facebook has, so
it might be a complimentary tool. Particularly, because it's nice to
put a face on the names when you're a new in the field, and don't know
that many people. Obviously I don't really know enough to say this,
but I imagine seabirds.net will be really valuable portal for: Data-
repository and collaboration, "member" lists, possibly debates and
news too. I think Mendeley embedding could add some unique literature
organisation features and as mentioned social networking to
seabirds.net.

You're very welcome to disagree ;)

Sjurdur